“We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
“A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired… — Rien Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
“In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state,… — Richard Driehaus Copy Share Image
The weird thing is, I'm not entirely sure that I am meant to think that such a gift is who I am… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy.… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It… — Seneca Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.” — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actually, it's normal when you come to a new club and country: you need to get used to the language, the philosophy… — Granit Xhaka Copy Share Image
“If a man spent so much time studying rekigious matters and philosophy, how would he have any time left over to experience… — Farahad Zama Copy Share Image
Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change! — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Listening is hard work. Listen carefully not only with your ears, but also listen with all of your senses. You will understand… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Sadly, there is no evidence that the existence of a code of ethics has any particular relationship to an organisation’s actual practice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson we can draw from this, of course, is that it's best, if at all possible, not to become… — Will Buckingham Copy Share Image
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible,… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I just wanted to go home. Take a quick bath, have a beer, and sink into my warm bed with my cigarettes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How you think, speak, and act at this moment determines your success, failure, and your happiness in your future.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
![“Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f79/plato-103_action_those-who-are-not-schooled-and-practised_1210851.jpg)
